I thought it would be fun to focus on some of the non-conventional USB gadgets that are available for your computer. By now everyone has a USB thumb drive and/or USB hard drives. Check out some other uses for your extra USB ports.
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I thought it would be interesting to focus the lesser known freeware applications that are available instead of just listing all the popular freeware applications (Firefox, SmartFTP, etc). I’ve tried to attach a screenshot with each program so you can get a feel about what the program does before downloading it.
Feel free to comment if you think I missed something and would like it added. Remember that the focus of this post is not to point out well known pieces of software but to focus on the lesser knowns.
I know that a simple Google search reveals similar sites, but I thought that I’d bring it to the attention of everyone here in case they might have missed it.
Notepad++ is a free replacement to the standard Notepad that comes with Windows XP and Vista. It is small and lightweight. This is an awesome program for anyone. You don’t need to be a programmer/developer to benefit from this application.
Features:
- Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
- WYSIWYG Editor
- User-Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Auto-completion
- Multi-Document View (Tabs!)
- Search/Replace Feature
- Full Drag ‘N’ Drop Support
- File Status Auto Detection
- Brace and indent guideline highlighting
With a few easy steps, you can easily replace your default Notepad in Vista or XP with this one.
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This tweak can easily be found all over the internet. This tweak is for broadband users (do people even use dialup anymore?). When you go to a website, Firefox will make a single request to the web page at a time. This tweak changes that so Firefox makes several requests at once, thus speeding up how long it takes for page to load.
- Type ‘about:config‘ into the address bar and hit enter (obviously with no ” ” characters).
- This should bring you to Firefox’s configuration “page”.
- Find the following entries and make the following changes:
- Set network.http.pipelining to ‘true’
- Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to ‘true’
- Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests between 3-5.
- NOTE: If you make this number too large, you can really cause a headache. For example, if you set it to 30 when you go to any site, you can possibility make 30 requests to it at once. This can cause issues with page loading, and it can piss off whoever runs that site. Play around and find a low number that works for you.
- Right-Click anywhere and select New->Integer. Call it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it a value of 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on the information it receives.
- Restart Firefox (not sure if this is required, can’t hurt) and you’re all set.
Enjoy a slightly faster internet experience.
I’ve been using Firefox to block ads so long, when I use someone else’s computer I’m sometimes thrown off when I see advertisements.
First off, I recommend getting Adblock Plus. This plugin will download a list of report online advertising sites and block them from even showing up on any website in the first place. It’s as simple as installing and setting it up with the initial setup, and you’re done.
Now we are going to use Firefox and Stylish to block various ads and restyle websites with those ads removed.
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